The upside of the Target hack, and how you can stay safe

2:44 PM,
Mar. 28, 2014

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Kim Komando | Special for USA TODAY

Every week or two, we learn something new about the horrific data breach Target suffered late last year. If you recall, over Thanksgiving weekend the huge retailer got "pwned," as the hackers say, in one of the biggest data thefts in history. Hackers snatched the credit card numbers of some 40 million Target shoppers.

Then we learned that it was more than credit card numbers; the hackers had made off with the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of more than 70 million additional customers!

As the weeks went on, we found out that the hackers had stolen credentials from an employee ...